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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Hands, Wish

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• In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

  Galileo Galilei

  Distance, Humanity, Progress

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• The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

  Oliver Sacks

  Blessing, Grace, Stealing

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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• Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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• As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love You, Bhakti

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• Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Heart, Optimistic

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.65, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.

  Jon Anderson

  Future, Light, Jewels

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• Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

  Theophilus London

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

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• We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.

  Dallas Willard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

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• When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.

  Omid Safi

  Heart, Soul, Asking

  "We Are No Longer Fine, We’re Busy Blind" by Dana O’Dell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2015.

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• It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, World Love, Wonderful

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• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Giving, Earth

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Wall, Fall

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.174, Random House

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Kindness, Daily Life

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

  Viola Davis

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Heartbreaking

  "'Won't Back Down': 2 Moms Fight to Save a Failing School". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. August 20, 2012.

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Years, Joy

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• Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mean, Successful, Doing What You Love

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.89, GENERAL PRESS

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• The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Eye, Angel

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

  Tim Winton

  Reflection, Men, Judging

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• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Sadness, Emotional

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• Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Character, Preparation

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• Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Journey, Flow

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